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[–] 119 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Not surprising at all, there's been so many cop brutality incidents over the years. Off the top of my head, a cop broke the arm of an elderly woman with dementia and the cops laughed and joked about it. There was another case where the cops make a man crawl on floor before executing him. People don't just become monsters overnight. They've been trained over the years to behave this way.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    shout out to Loveland Colorado, one of the most overfunded police districts in the country. If you haven't seen that video definitely look it up. It's not even an altercation it's literally just two dudes sitting and yukking it up while they torture a screaming geriatric woman.

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  • [–] 96 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    The police representative blandly spouting copaganda and saying how much the LAPD cares about safeguarding lives, while a protestor is currently getting hit with batons and run over by horses, is the most US thing I've ever seen.

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Who would have thought the LAPD would commit such blatant police brutality? Oh wait, everyone.

    If you ever wonder why police budgets are so over-inflated, it's because an absurd number of their unqualified thugs get sued for shot like this, and they have to pay out huge amounts of compensation. You'd think they'd learn, but they won't as long as they keep getting basically unlimited budgets and no real consequences.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I made an argument with one of my co-workers that I think that police unions should have to pay all legal bills and payouts for cops getting sued for violating rights. He responded "That's a quick way to get rid of all police unions," I had to stop and think if that would be a problem or not.

    My point was the police unions are the only ones that can hold their members accountable. If they forced their members to act better instead of being thugs then things might change. If Police unions don't hold themselves accountable then no one will.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Under Capitalism, the police can only ever be the millitant arm of the bourgeoisie directed against the proletariat. ACAB has value as a phrase because the police only serve Capital. As long as Capital is dominant over humanity, rather than the inverse, police will be used primarily against the working class.

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    [–] 72 points 1 year ago

    Those Nazis are attempting murder.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago

    Bunch of fucking nazis.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    looking at how even the horses are disobeying being forced to harm people - we can conclude that calling cops animals is not appropriate - ghouls and psychopaths seems more adequate but don't let me stop you from listing all other fitting names you can think of:

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    [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I made a clip of this in better quality from the actual video

    https://streamable.com/bc1sog

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    [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Notice the first horse refused on the left.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Watched this live all day at work. So much of this shit went on. The whole thing with CHP trapped under the overpasses was set up to be a massacre, but the protestors didn't kill them.

    No commander in his right mind would trap their troops on low ground like that unless it was a sacrifice.

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    Arent you guys supposed to have weapons in case a tyranical government or something like that?

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The arming was (and remains) mainly about keeping the US settler garrison empowered to carry out indigenous eviction, and keeping non-white populations under control. Not protecting from a tyrannical government.

    You can see that when those groups did try to arm themselves, such as the Black panthers or the American Indian Movement, laws were passed and repression carried out to disarm them.

    Highly recommend reading Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Loaded, the disarming history of the second amendment for more on this. You can find the audiobook on torrents.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Thanks for the reading recomendation, will look into it. Yeah, times of crisis are really fast destroyers of lies, such as that the ruling classes would allow the ruled to arm against them. If the propaganda meltdown was in turbo mode after israel started the genocide, a civil conflict inside the us will give it a spaceship engine

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    The Police DO love a little Fascism.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    How can we as a society tolerate this?

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Defund the entire department until they bring forward the cops who did this

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    When criminals wear badges.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    As someone raised in LA I think this is the first time I've actually seen police on horses. Where in the protests did that particular one happen?

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  • [+] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (40 children)
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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    The police badge is the most common gang sign that I regularly see.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    You got to be fucking kidding me

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Those aren’t cops, those are murders.

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